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From: victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor Menayang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HyperDisk
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Date: 9 Jun 91 04:36:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.205315.8938@DMI.USherb.CA> <2770026@hparc0.HP.COM> <1991Jun7.173530.27497@iscnvx.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun7.173530.27497@iscnvx.uucp> jay@iscnvx.uucp (Jay D Ward) writes:
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>Be careful!!  According to the author of HyperDisk, it needs a whole
>64k segment in order to test and initialize it's buffers. If it
>doesn't have enough memory, it will appear to function, but it will
>actually be disbled!  

Are you saying that you cannot even rely on hyperdk's report
to tell whether hyperdisk is functioning or not?

>                      The registered version can be loaded high via
>the "xs" parameter, which works with QEMM or the C&T bios w/o QEMM.

Nowhere in the online manual does the author mention something
about disabling the XS feature in the unregistered version.
Am I missing something here?

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